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The work depicts George Washington leading soldiers across the Delaware River to surprise the infantry hiding on the other side on Christmas Night, 1776, Kestenman said.
'A German-born American immigrant, Leutze was also a staunch abolitionist and in 'Washington crossing the Delaware' he deliberately included a variety of the figures that make up the melting pot that formed the American nation,' said Kestenman.
She pointed out a Black soldier, another soldier wearing a Scottish bonnet, and moccasins and buckskin clothing suggesting the American West and Native Americans.
A reenactment of this famed moment happens every year and draws in crowds to the banks of the Washington River in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10747579/Rare-Washington-Crossing-Delaware-painting-hung-White-House-auctioned-off.html